#42 Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

Set near the end of the 21^st century where we have had contact with another species and they have ambassadors and trade with us.  People who can’t do VR turn out to be great at communicating with the Logi, mind to mind the downside is it makes the human act drunk if they do it for too long of a period of time.  Lydia had been working for the cultural attaché for less than a year when she wakes up one morning to find he has been murdered and she was the only other person in the house and all video recordings are missing.   While suspicion is on her she returns to the house and then hears the ghost of her boss in her head.  With a few sentences she is off and running to find the real killer of her boss. This is a mystery but there is a lot of extrapolations of how society will be moving into the future.  I really enjoyed the worldbuilding in here and would certainly like to see a story that covers the first contact between humans and Logi.

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss